A Children's Classic, A 9-Year-Old-Boy And a Fateful Bequest - For Albert Clarke, the Rise Of 'Goodnight Moon' Is No Storybook Romance - Broken Homes, Broken Noses"
librarianpirate: vindicatedcommunications: wooliebear: librarianpirate:
I find this heartbreaking. Margaret Wise Brown (who wrote Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, among others) left her royalties to the 9 year old son of her next door neighbor. This article (written in 2000) is the story of how that affected him.
Goodness, I just want to give him a hug and the number of both a good therapist and a good accountant.
I feel really bad for his kids.
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